A Mars Hill, North Carolina woman is now an inmate at The North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh after being sentenced to up to 10 years for statutory rape.

Amanda Metcalf, 24, (pictured left with cop) formerly of 217 Brook St., Mars Hill, was sentenced to at least 94 months and no more than 122 months in prison when she appeared before Superior Court Judge Philip Ginn last week in Madison County.

Metcalf was arrested in April and charged with felony statutory rape after a boy told Madison County Detective Mike Boone that he was 13 when he and Metcalf had sex.

Boone said he began investigating after “an anonymous phone call that reported Ms. Metcalf was in some type of relationship with a minor.”

Boone said he was able to identify the minor. “I spoke to the parent and with the minor himself.”

He said the mother was “very upset; had not a clue” what might be going on between the adult woman and her boy.

Boone said the boy, who was not identified, admitted “there was a past relationship” with Metcalf, and that Metcalf confirmed it when interviewed.

Boone said the witness against Metcalf said the sexual activity occurred around spring break 2008.

Metcalf had faced up to 40 years in prison under state sentencing guidelines.

In his order, Ginn said Metcalf must register as a sex offender “for 30 years” after her release.